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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Pagan in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on November 13, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.2393S, 147.1212WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 172 km SE of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands (107 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10003y32. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003y32. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49.29 km (31 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/11/15 / 2015-11-13 12:54:43 / November 13, 2015 @ 12:54 pm. Exact location of event, depth 49.29 km, 147.1212° East, 17.2393° North. The temblor was reported at 22:54:43 / 10:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 172 km SE of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.1212° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.2393° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 172km SE of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-13 12:54:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-13 13:14:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 400 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.619 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10003y32 Id of event.
Event Code 10003y32 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003y32, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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